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Companion to Roman history (1912)

Jones, Henry Stuart, 1867-1939 · Oxford : Clarendon · leaf 147

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irinal. The former were begun about a.d. 212 and dedicatedby Caracalla in a. d. 216, although not finished before the reignof Severus Alexander. The area of the enclosure measures 353 by 120 ARCHITECTURE CHAP. II 335 metres, that of the main building 216 by 112 metres. Theywere, however, surpassed… … o c5 ^3 -© © M Caracalla could accommodate 1600 bathers at once, those of Dio-cletian were designed for twice that number. Their ground plansare very similar, and Fig. 20, which gives that of the central blockof the Baths of Diocletian, may be taken as typical. In each themain entrance leads into a…

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